4 thoughts on “Illuminations”

I just want to add my 2 cent’s worth. I will spare you the details. Way too many. Anyways, I went through a Great darkness too hard to describe here. I thought there was no way out. I pleaded and pleaded for help..and turned to prayer..and just gave up. I lost all hope. I was done. Slowly, the darkness started lifting. One night, I woke up. What woke me was a Overwhelming feeling of peace. No way to put into words. I opened my eyes, My room was lit up. There was a cloud that covered my ceiling..about a foot thick. This cloud was moving, There was a light that came out of this cloud. It lit up the entire room. I felt extreme peace.. tranquility, calmness.. Impossible to put into writing. If I would have died at that moment…I would have been happy. Then, my wife awakes… she says “what is that”. I knew she was seeing it also. We both saw it.. but more importantly, felt it. Then I was thinking about a dream i was having right before i saws this. I was dreaming of 2 HUGE male lions, inside a greek/roman style courtyard. ferocious..but i knew they were there for my protection. My wife, while experiencing this Beautiful cloud and light tells me she had a strange dream. She then tells me she dreamt 2 huge lions inside a roman courtyard.. ferocious.. but theywere there to protect her. We both had the same exact dream right before waking up to this Peace cloud/light. After this experience,, many many more things happened…but that’s a different story. thank you…..

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. We have to be open to dreams and visions and the inner feelings that accompany them. There are parts of the soul that are at sleep in the daylight working hours and are awake in the night. The aim is not just to relish the experience and the peace and joy it may bring with it, but to enable that experience to be evidential and informative about aspects of reality most people never notice, that, as Hamlet says to Horatio, “are not dreamt of in your philosophy.” This was a blessing for you and your wife, and your telling it is a blessing to us!

This illumination is so powerful! I cannot help reading it repeatedly. My wish is for all people in despair to hear these words. Thank you, Jerry, for bringing forth such a clear cut and impactful message from our Beloved Creator! The love of our Creator is beyond human understanding. Isn’t that amazing? The answer is always love.

Yes, what I am told here goes beyond “God loves us,” as if God just happened to be warm-hearted. Love is actually the driving force in everything He does. Since God’s love is personal and concrete, He loves you personally. And, since this is God’s defining essence, He can’t stop loving you, through happy times and sad, whether at your best or at your worst. God sticks with us. He can’t help Himself.

What Other People Are Saying About the Book…

Once I finished a draft of the book, I asked people I knew – some I knew well and some I had only recently met -- to take a look and give me some quick comments. I pointedly did not ask for praise, but for “honest responses,” since only those would be helpful in editing the book. Here are excerpts from their comments.
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“This work has the potential to be the most influential book in our time. It exudes spiritual authenticity as it is well-grounded in human experience. It advances a way to embrace spirituality in oneself. As your own experience, the work is anchored in our time, our experience.”- Celeste Colgan, Ph.D. (English), former Deputy Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities

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“If there is a God, this is what he sounds like.”- Stephen H. Balch, Founding President, National Association of Scholars

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“Thanks for this wonderful gift. This is a remarkable document. I’m only two-thirds though, and I’m anxious to see how things turn out.”- Wesley Morriston, Ph.D. (Philosophy), Professor of Philosophy, University of Colorado at Boulder; Board Member, Society of Christian Philosophers)

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“I am reading your draft slowly as a devotional and am so full of thoughts and feelings about it that it is hard to know where to begin. I think this is very important. Much of it sounds like God to me, sounds like how what I take to be God sounds in those moments when I am in touch (and I am struck by how very in-touch you are, how constantly). The freshness of the talk, so fresh it makes you laugh -- I experience God that way. The wisdom. The love. The reproach when necessary (how God exits when ego enters).”- Jeanine Diller, Ph.D. (Philosophy), Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Toledo

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“It is one of the most intriguing, unusual, passionate things I have ever read. It is very special.”- Matthew Foster, Ph.D. (Theology), Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Molloy College

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